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Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson is

the first collection of newspaper articles and fiction written by Miriam Michelson, bestselling novelist, revolutionary journalist, and early feminist activist.
Editor Lori HarrisonKahan introduces readers to a writer who broke gender barriers in journalism, covering crime and politics for San Francisco's top dailies throughout thes, an era that consigned most female reporters to writing about fashion and society events.
In the The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson's foreword, Joan MichelsonMiriam Michelson's greatgreat niece, herself a reporter and advocate for women's equality and advancementexplains that in these trying political times, we need the reminder of how a "girl reporter" leveraged her fame and notoriety to keep the suffrage movement on the front page of the news.


In her introduction, HarrisonKahan draws on a variety of archival sources to tell the remarkable story of a brazen, single woman who grew up as the daughter of Jewish immigrants in a Nevada mining town during the Gold Rush.
The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson offers a crosssection of Michelson's eclectic career as a reporter by showcasing a variety of topics she covered, including the treatment of Native Americans, profiles of suffrage leaders such as Susan B.
Anthony and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and police corruption, The book also traces Michelson's evolution from reporter to fiction writer, reprinting stories such as "In the Bishop's Carriage", a scandalous picaresque about a female pickpocket excerpts from the Saturday Evening Post series, "A Yellow Journalist", based on Michelson's own experiences as a reporter in the era of Hearst and Pulitzer and the title novella, The Superwoman, a trailblazing work of feminist utopian fiction that has been unavailable since its publication in The Smart Set in.
Readers will see how Michelson's newspaper work fueled her imagination as a fiction writer and how she adapted narrative techniques from fiction to create a body of journalism that informs, provokes, and entertains, even a century after it was written.
An amazing collection of writings from an author most have never heard of! Great intro! Miriam Michelsonwas an American journalist and writer.
Miriam Michelson was born in the mining town of Calaveras, California, in, She was the seventh of eight children of Samuel and Rosalie née Przylubska Michelson, who immigrated to the United States from Poland in.
Her oldest brother, physicist Albert A, Michelson, was the first American citizen to win a Nobel Prize for science and the youngest, journalist Charles Michelson, became a close assistant to Franklin D.
Roosevelt. She worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and later, in Philadelphia, for the North American.
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